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1502 in literature

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This article presents a list of literary events and publications during 1502.

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Events

  • Aldine Press editions of Dante's Divine Comedy, Herodotus' Histories (in Greek and Italian parallel text) and Sophocles published in Venice.
  • English poet Stephen Hawes is appointed Groom of the Chamber to Henry VII of England.
  • English Poet Laureate John Skelton is imprisoned, possibly at the instigation of Cardinal Wolsey.

    • Prose

  • Niccolò Machiavelli – Discourse about the Provision of Money (Discorso sopra la provisione del danaro)
  • Shin Maha Thilawuntha – Yazawin Kyaw (Celebrated Chronicle)

    • Drama

  • Gil Vicente – Monólogo do Vaqueiro ("Monologue of the Cowboy")

    • Poetry

  • Pietro Bembo – Terzerime (published by Aldus Manutius)
  • Conradus Celtis – Amores
  • Baptista Mantuanus – Sylvae
  • Jacopo Sannazaro – Arcadia (pirated edition)

    • Births

  • Guillaume Bigot, French writer, doctor, humanist and poet in French and Latin (died 1550)
  • Approximate year – Benedetto Varchi, Florentine humanist, historian and poet in Latin (died 1565)

    • Deaths

  • February – Olivier de la Marche, French poet and chronicler (born 1426)
  • March – Felix Fabri (Felix Faber), Swiss Dominican theologian and travel writer (born c. 1441)
  • Unknown dates
  • Jalaladdin Davani, Iranian philosopher, theologian, jurist and poet (born 1426)
  • Henry Medwall, English dramatist (born c. 1462)
  • Gwerful Mechain, Welsh erotic poet (born c. 1460?)
  • Bonino Mombrizio, Milanese lawyer, bureaucrat, philologist, humanist, editor of ancient writings and poet in Latin (born 1424)
  • Octavien de Saint-Gelais, French churchman, poet and translator (born 1468)
  • Sōgi (宗祇), Japanese Zen monk and renga poet (born 1421)

    • References

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